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Table 8_3_2-6

2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 8_3_2.6Asthma admissions per 100,000 population,a age 18 and over, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2007

Non-Hispanic

Hispanic, all races

Total

White

Black

API

Population group

Rate

SE

Rate

SE

Rate

SE

Rate

SE

Rate

SE

Total

118.5

2.8

89.6

1.9

300.7

16.7

71.8

6.9

148.9

12.5

Age

18-44

72.1

2.0

55.6

1.3

183.1

11.0

19.1

2.3

57.7

4.7

45-64

145.7

3.9

103.2

2.3

433.9

25.5

49.8

4.9

178.3

16.7

65 and over

212.2

5.1

172.5

4.4

418.7

23.6

257.7

27.7

349.3

30.6

65-69

186.2

5.2

145.4

4.2

427.3

26.0

134.5

15.8

271.9

28.4

70-74

206.4

5.6

159.5

4.8

443.9

28.9

211.2

24.0

361.7

34.3

75-79

220.6

5.8

179.8

5.4

417.7

28.0

326.2

40.3

393.2

35.8

80-84

246.1

7.0

207.9

6.6

424.7

29.5

422.8

52.1

437.1

44.4

85 and over

233.6

7.1

200.8

6.6

361.3

29.5

485.3

78.8

395.9

39.8

Gender

Male

70.9

2.0

51.1

1.2

195.3

12.6

61.8

7.4

84.0

7.5

Female

161.7

3.8

124.3

2.6

396.6

21.1

80.7

7.4

204.7

17.3

Median income of patient's ZIP Code

First quartile (lowest income)

190.3

8.6

128.9

4.2

367.1

27.6

128.2

20.3

205.9

27.5

Second quartile

110.2

3.9

90.3

3.0

261.9

17.9

59.4

7.4

123.7

11.6

Third quartile

96.7

3.6

81.9

3.1

238.8

17.6

75.5

9.4

113.5

11.9

Fourth quartile (highest income)

79.6

3.7

70.3

3.4

217.3

19.3

58.1

9.9

102.2

9.1

Location of patient residence

Large central metropolitan

148.6

9.8

83.4

5.1

372.5

37.1

76.2

9.3

172.3

23.0

Large fringe metropolitan

123.0

6.9

102.4

5.9

302.2

27.5

57.6

13.1

141.5

15.4

Medium metropolitan

88.7

7.0

73.1

5.7

194.9

25.4

63.2

17.1

118.5

16.7

Small metropolitan

98.7

9.3

84.8

7.7

258.8

40.0

DSU

DSU

89.8

16.6

Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)

106.3

4.8

98.3

4.7

192.2

20.5

DSU

DSU

110.7

17.4

Noncore (nonmetropolitan)

116.6

5.0

104.6

4.5

263.6

31.1

DSU

DSU

146.5

29.8

Region of inpatient treatment

Northeast

152.4

8.2

91.6

4.2

389.2

40.3

79.4

17.2

450.1

70.0

Midwest

116.4

6.9

83.7

3.4

449.4

70.5

37.7

6.5

62.7

11.1

South

129.8

4.7

107.7

3.9

233.7

14.5

66.7

9.6

120.5

16.3

West

74.6

2.9

63.1

3.1

251.0

24.6

75.8

10.1

77.3

5.8

aExcludes patients with cystic fibrosis or anomalies of the respiratory system, obstetric admissions, and transfers from other institutions. Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population; when reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender only; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age only.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, State Inpatient Databases, disparities analysis file, 2007, and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1. The analysis file is designed to provide national estimates on disparities using weighted records from a sample of hospitals from the following 26 States: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.